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So You're British and Terrified What the Local Elections Will Mean About the General Election and the Fate of the Country in General.

I am too and here's some things I'm telling myself to stay hopeful!

Local elections don't have a high turnout! On average about 30% of people actually vote in them! In a general election you will have a larger amount of voters and more tactical votes as people take it a lot more seriously.

Also! Although Reform gained a lot of seats, so did the Liberal Democrats, a party who do align themselves with the transgender population and have left leaning views. As well as this, so did the Green party, another left leaning party

The next general election will be in 2029 (it could be sooner but I don't believe the Labour party are going to do that) and that means Labour has enough time to get their shit together. That's four whole years!

Following from this, these results have already frightened Labour members- they are starting to evaluate how they're losing the working class vote and seek to regain it (this link is from the guardian hence the shinigami eyes. Unfortunately as we know every British newspaper is transphobic)

Having reform councils and mayors is going to give their voters an idea of what a reform government could be like. It's going to be rough, but it is going to demonstrate how much worse it can be if we have a reform parliament and will turn people off of voting Reform in a general election. (Think UKIP 10 years ago).

As well as this, during a general election people will begin to educate themselves more- the average Reform voter isn't aware of their policies concerning the NHS and trade with the US. This will come to light during debates and closer to a general election.

UKIP collapsed and so will Reform.

Everyone remember to stay vigilant, vote in your next local elections. Those of you who didn't have local elections this year, vote in yours when it happens! And stay strong and safe until the next general election. There are resources to know how to tactical vote against the conservatives and I believe there will be ones to tactically vote against Reform in the future.

Once again stay strong, safe and alive!

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Belted Kingfisher I know you don’t care but you mean everything to me girl

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gender is a performance and im getting heckled by those old gay muppets

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you can tell a lot about a guy by the stuff you make up in your head about him

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Fuck what a piece of paper says, trans women are women, always have been and they always will be.

Also fuck jkr

And whilst I’m here, fuck Trump too

I’m so fucking done today

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At 1000 on Thursday 16/04 the UK Supreme Court ruled that the Equality Act 2010 uses the terms 'woman' and 'sex' to refer to "biological" women and "biological" sex, excluding trans people. The judges claim that this is not " triumph of one or more groups in our society at the expense of another" however it is hard to see this as anything other than excluding transgender people from legal protections in the equality act, opening the way for legal discrimination of transgender and gender non-conforming people.

Transgender people have always existed and always will. Nothing will change that.

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Ahhhh the truth it burns, no it burns, noooo

My doctor and therapist: now with this autism + ADHD diagnosis you need to learn to unmask because masking all the time will make you burn out again and feel like shit

Other people: well it's just interesting how after getting the diagnosis you suddenly start behaving like that I mean I'm not saying you're faking it's just funny how you suddenly cannot be normal like you were before

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Good morning! I’m salty.

I think we, as a general community, need to start taking this little moment more seriously.

This, right here? This is asking for consent. It’s a legal necessity, yes, but it is also you, the reader, actively consenting to see adult content; and in doing so, saying that you are of an age to see it, and that you’re emotionally capable of handling it.

You find the content you find behind this warning disgusting, horrifying, upsetting, triggering? You consented. You said you could handle it, and you were able to back out at any time. You take responsibility for yourself when you click through this, and so long as the creator used warnings and tags correctly, you bear full responsibility for its impact on you.

“Children are going to lie about their age” is probably true, but that’s the problem of them and the people who are responsible for them, not the people that they lie to.

If you’re not prepared to see adult content, created by and for adults, don’t fucking click through this. And if you do, for all that’s holy, don’t blame anyone else for it.

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Are fedoras really that bad?

YES YES THEY ARE

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the shimp got too much attention and now there are transphobes in my notes, this is a transgender blog run by a transgender dyke. fuckers.

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Is there an alt flag for genderqueer? I hate how TERFs have stolen the colour scheme

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yeah im “transitioning” *dissolves into tiny pieces as i click to the next slide*

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Big Pride Month shoutout to the late Maddie Blaustein, the wonderful trans woman who was the iconic first English voice of Meowth and my introduction to transgender people. 🏳️‍⚧️ She is missed to this very day and will always be the best English Meowth to me! :D

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i'm so tired of the yaoi-ification of mlm ships where people feel the need to make one of them (usually the fandom-assigned bottom) into a teeny tiny waifish twink and the other into a huge musclebound super aggro guy (usually the fandom-assigned top) i know this is like a thing many people have been saying for years but i just feel like it has never actually gotten better in fandom spaces. the fatphobia of it, the gender essentialism, the homophobia, it's all so fucking annoying it makes me want to scream

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I called the doctor! ......but got told to call back in 3 weeks...the world is against me

adhd will get you thinking "i should make this doctors appointment" every day for 7 months and counting